NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nondualism, Impermanence, Reinforcement
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*stage model of enlightenment: your awareness in one area of functioning may not always generalize to other areas. Meditation alone (western culture, isolated) may hard to broaden insight. Meditation was first introduced to people in india that is why meditation may not suitable to modern contemporary (modernized, western) people. Thus, engler suggest meditation complement with western insight together. Buddha criticize ontological self (everlasting, unchanging, essential, enduring soul)" : he said this does not exist. Buddha did not criticize psychological self (impact our functioning, sense of self) *two types of self neglected in western psychology: un-selfconscious experience: E. g. when you immersed into reading books you forget about self. Not fully aware of own self or others. We remain un-selfconscious but at the same time very aware. Unconscious experience described in 4 dhyhanas/jhanas and samadhi. We can only remain in them for minutes at a time. Finding non/empty-self through discovery: awareness can"t be observed but we only experience of awareness.
